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Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist known for his unique narrative style and profound portrayal of complex family relationships. His works often explore identity, genetics, and human emotions. more

“I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then.”

Enough Pain Desire Names Strong Goal Animal Emotion Creatures Who We Are Strong Enough Eldest

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Self Would Be Worry Conscious My Time Self Conscious

Author:Christopher Paolini

“The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.”

Littles Ideas Written Tales Life Experience Ongoing Conceit

Author:Steven Erikson

“A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.”

Want Kind Stories Dream Lost Reader Ease Invites Superficial Slides

Author:Steven Erikson

“I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.”

Feels Writing Core

Author:Steven Erikson

“For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.”

Years Stories Turns Our Lives Building Stones Bounds Layers

Book:The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10

Source: The Crippled God: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 10

“Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.”

Ifs Writing Believe Difficult Fiction Too Much Affection Gestures Not Friends

Author:Steven Erikson

“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”

Reason Facts Care Justice Compassion Violence Promise Truth Is Deeds Deceit Cloaks Abnegation

Author:Steven Erikson

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